Sentence examples for were intransigent from inspiring English sources
adjective
Unwilling to compromise or moderate a position; unreasonable; irreconcilable; stubborn.
- Don't waste your time trying to change his mind: he's completely intransigent.
In the face of growing protests, governors and mayors — who at first were intransigent — rushed to lower the transportation rates.
The Liberal MP lobbied ministers and British Railway officials to keep the line open as a branch line serving Borders towns but he says they were "intransigent".
Labelling the attempt at censorship an outrage, Taleb said he had been accused of stubbornness for rejecting the instruction: "I have always been intransigent … intransigence is something I value".
Yet Martoma was intransigent.
Above all, he was intransigent.
"Angela Merkel is wrong to be intransigent.
Some are intransigent, or held captive by lobbies.
Some Chelsea fans blamed Liverpool for being intransigent.
The US was intransigent on legally binding emissions reductions.
Japanese high command was intransigent, so the decision was made to use nuclear weapons.
"You make me anxious and cross," he scolds — she is being intransigent.
